This photo is of my father. I hold it in my hands, a 4-inch by 4-inch Kodak memory of my...
What follows is a selection from the opening chapters of BJ Omanson’s memoir Three Years on the Nowhere Road in...
He held up the phone so that only half of her mother’s face shown in the screen window. “Is this...
THE PARLOR is a new series on The Milk House that embraces the lighter side of rural life. You can...
You turn the corner. Two high windows already open like eyelids. The house awake. Mum slows the car. Puts the...
“Morning. Got a visitor?” said Tony. Tony lived next door. It was Tuesday – bin day – and we’d both...
Child of the Large-Beaked Bird The crows are up to no good, tapping the tin roof like it’s Miss Glover’s...
My Mother Hoped for the Best My mother would pause in her sweeping and lean on the brush to listen...
Cowhouse In the beginning they had one cow – a tough little heifer that could kick like a mule. She...
Diviners A child, I followed him around the field, held a wish-bone between my fingers. And when he paused and...
Alabama April If you reenact the last painful moment I’ll love you harder than a civil war drama on a...
THE PARLOR is a new series on The Milk House that embraces the lighter side of rural life. You can...